Poll support for Hamas attacks is worrying for Gaza peace prospects

A poll by the independent Ramallah-based Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research on the post Operation Protective Edge found 68% of Gaza’s occupants supported last summer’s ‘Hamas rocket attacks’.

The data was collected on August 26-30 last year, and reveals the mindset of the ‘ordinary’ Palestinian, which indicates Hamas’s military action was backed by a critical mass, with 48% supporting an armed intifada.

Most worryingly from Israel’s perspective, 28% of those surveyed believed the long-term goal of the Palestinian Authority, ‘was to conquer all of Israel and kill most of the Jews’.